[Nottingham] Web page scraping

[Chris Burton]

> "Web page scraping":
>
> Anyone recommend any software for extracting info/tables from html and
> web pages?
>
> (This must already be often done!)

I normally do whatever I need to do in PHP since most scraping just needs to 
be quick and dirty. A friend showed me some of his scraping code in ruby 
(using some module or whatever they're called in ruby land) and it looked 
quite sane - even for ruby ;) Tho IMO you should use whatever you're 
familiar with.



ChrisB.